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High-Sensation seekers, those characterized as creative, disinhibited, and witty boundary-pushers are everywhere. Your mother, father, best friend, or even your grandmother could be a high sensation-seeker and you wouldn’t even know it. Perhaps you’d gather that they were a bit more exciting than the average person, but never considered any of them to be high sensation-seekers. In Christopher Munsey’s APA (American Psychological Association) article titled “Frisky, but more risky”, Munsey discusses Temple University psychologist Dr. Frank Farley’s studies in high sensation-seekers. Dr. Farley points out that high sensation-seekers are real, prevalent, and could even be considered their own personality type.

Dr. Farley describes the high sensation-seeking personality trait as “the Big T personality” with the “T” standing for “thrill seeking”. The Big T personality can be either a positive Big T personality or a negative Big T personality. Big T negative personalities may be involved in crimes or violence simply for thrill, which starkly contrast Big T positive personalities, which are those who find thrills in physical or mental activities, examples being Mt. Everest mountain climber and Albert Einstein respectively. The mountain climber finds thrill in the reaching the top of mountain despite the sheer possibility of plummeting to his demise, and Albert Einstein found his research and discoveries to be thrilling

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